Human reason teaches us to question things, to discover things, and to make new laws for our better governance. 1111), a brilliant philosopher and theologian whose tormented spirit found refuge at the last in a mystical oneness with Allah. The Ash?arites found a potent voice in the Imam al-Ghazali (d.
Several factors are responsible for this ossification, but the principle one, in Reilly’s view, was the rise of the Ash?arite sect in the tenth century and the defeat of the rival sect of the Mu?tazalites.
“ purpose is to show that Islamic civilization, which led to the urbane princedoms of Andalusia in the West, and to the mystical laughter of the Sufis in the East, underwent a moral and intellectual crisis in the ninth to the eleventh century of our era, when it turned its back on philosophy and took refuge in dogma. The gist of Reilly’s argument is aptly summarized in the forward to the book by philosopher Roger Scruton: Reilly argues this thesis in a provocatively-titled book- The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis. 98.In 1987 professor Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, a stinging indictment of American higher education.īut according to former policy advisor Robert Reilly, a much more dramatic “closing of the mind” happened in the Muslim world 800 years ago, and is at the heart of the modern conflict between Islam and the West. Islamic philosophy, theology, and science, v.
Sait Özervarlı Chapter 11 Al-Ghazālī's "Demarcation of Science" A Commonplace Apology in the Muslim Reception of Modern Science- and Its Limitations Martin Riexinger Chapter 12 The Revival of the Religious Sciences in the Twenty-First Century Suʻād al-Ḥakīm's Adaptation of al-Ghazālī's Revival Kenneth Garden Indices General Index of Names and Subjects Index of Passages in Works by al-Ghazālī Index of Verses in the Qurʼan. Ottoman Perceptions of al-Ghazālī's Works and Discussions on His Historical Role in Its Late PeriodM. The Conundrum of His Body-Soul DualismAyman Shihadeh Chapter 6 Al-Ghazālī's Veil Section Comparative Religion before Religionswissenschaft? Anna Ayşe Akasoy Chapter 7 Is There an Autograph of al-Ghazālī in MS Yale, Landberg 318? Frank Griffel Part 2 Al-Ghazālī's Influence Chapter 8 Intuition, Intellection, and Mystical Knowledge Delineating Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī's Cognitive Theories Damien Janos Chapter 9 Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī's Use of al-Ghazālī's Mishkāt in His Commentary on the Light Verse (Q 24:35) Jules Janssens Chapter 10. Ogden Chapter 4 Al-Ghazālī's Teleology and the Galenic Tradition Reading The Wisdom in God's Creations (al-Ḥikma fī makhlūqāt Allah) Ahmed El Shamsy Chapter 5 Al-Ghazālī and Kalām. Preface Frank Griffel List of Figures and Tables List of Contributors Keys and Conventions Part 1 Al-Ghazālī's Works and His Thought Chapter 1 Al-Ghazālī on Error Taneli Kukkonen Chapter 2 Al-Ghazālī's Concept of Philosophy Ulrich Rudolph Chapter 3 Problems in al-Ghazālī's Perfect World Objections and Counter-Objections to His Best Possible World Thesis Stephen R.
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